I know this is a stupid problem which has probably come up on many occasions in the forum, but:
I am working on a flash site. When buttons are hit, I load external swf files to the right hand side of the movie.
The way I change over between movies is a clip which is a small square. It expands to a size and then the loaded swf appears behind it. The square then reduces and the loaded movie is visible to the user.
The problem is that when I load the movie, on the lowest level, it still appears above everything in the main movie, making the covering tween pointless. I guess I’m trying to load an external movie to a bottom layer.
Lets imagine the top layer with the box tween is called cover.
And there’s a mid layer with the buttons. Called Base.
And the bottom layer with the actionscript is called MovieLoader
Nah, I had tried that already. It is actually loading the movie in a new window.
I actually want the movie to load on the backmost layer, in case that isn;t clear. The layer called MovieLoader.
Thanks anyways.
If you place the container MC into the bottom most layer and then use the loadMovie action to load your external movie into the container MC, the loaded external movie should be in the bottom most layer.
Yeah. That seemed to make sense electrongeek. So I tried it. And it didn’t work. The movie loaded up just as before, on top of everthing. And it definatley was in a movieclip on a lower level… I’m stumped.
Now try this, create a empty movieclip on the bottom most layer and give it an instance name of “emptyMC.” Now use this script to load your external movie.[AS]loadMovie(“galleryDemo2.swf”, “emptyMC”);[/AS]
That will load the external movie into the bottom most layer where emptyMC is at.
Perfect. I got it working.
I was was having a wee bit of trouble, I was trying to load the external within emptyMC, as in, with the actionscript within emptyMC.
Figured it out though.
Thanks a bunch Electron
